1. Week 12: Current Social Issues for Indigenous People in Canada
1.1. Food Security
1.1.1. "Food security exists when all people at all times, have physical and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life" (World Food Summit, 1996).
1.2. Food Insecurity
1.2.1. "Food insecurity exists when the availability of nutritionally adequate and safe foods or the ability to acquire such food in socially acceptable ways is limited or uncertain"(Willows, Veugelers, Raine, & Kuhle, 2011, para. 2).
1.2.2. marginalized groups including Indigenous people are greatly affected by this issue.
1.2.3. Factors:
1.2.3.1. Poverty
1.2.3.2. Lack of/ limited access to food
1.2.3.3. Types of food available
1.2.3.4. Price inflation
1.2.3.5. Lack of alternative resources
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3. Interventions
3.1. Bottom-Up Approach
3.1.1. In order to develop meaningful, lasting solutions to Indigenous food security, it is important to understand the roots of their livelihood crisis (Ball-Jones, n.d., para. 2).
3.2. Advocacy
3.2.1. Media Involvement
3.2.2. Community Organizing
3.2.3. Public Demonstrations